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TOKAT (Armenian Evtoghia, anc. Dazimon)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1047 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOKAT (Armenian Evtoghia, anc. Dazimon) the See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak of the same name in the See also:Sivas vilayet of See also:Asia See also:Minor. It is situated in the Sivas-See also:Samsun chausee, See also:altitude 2280 ft., at the mouth of a rocky glen which opens out to the broad valley of the Tozanli Su, a tributary of the Yeshil Irmak. It See also:rose to importance under the See also:Seljuks. Pop. about 30,000, two-thirds Mussulman. The See also:industries are the manufacture of See also:copper utensils and yellow See also:leather, and the stamping of See also:colours on See also:white See also:Manchester See also:cotton. Near Tokat copper See also:pyrites, with See also:iron and See also:manganese, See also:kaolin and See also:coal are found; but most of the copper worked here comes from the mines of Keban Maden and Arghana Maden, on the upper See also:Euphrates and See also:Tigris. (D. G.

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